Federal agents executed search warrants at several Southern California sites they say are connected to three multimillion-dollar birth-tourism businesses that enabled thousands of Chinese women to travel here and return home with infants born as U.S. citizens.

All data and contracts related to the planned $14 billion expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant by Russia have been deemed secret for 30 years, a move critics says is anticompetitive and possibly unconstitutional.

Canada’s gross domestic product rose at a faster-than-expected clip in the fourth quarter, suggesting the economy held up relatively well even as prices for oil—one of Canada’s main exports—were sliding.

The Nobel Committee, which decides who is awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, replaced its chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, whose tenure has been marked by controversy, with Kaci Kullmann Five, a former leader of Norway’s conservative party.

Egypt would take the controversial step of importing gas from Israel if the price was right and if one of the gas companies involved drops legal action against the Egyptian government, the North African country’s oil minister said.

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Leaders of the three most heavily Ebola-stricken African nations said Tuesday the tide had turned against the epidemic, with weekly infections falling roughly from 1,000 to 100, but warned against declaring victory prematurely.

A. Sethumadhavan, the chairman of India's National Book Trust--an honorary post often bestowed on literary stalwarts-- has stepped down saying that he received a “message” from the government that it was time to go

First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Japan later this month, the White House said Tuesday. Mrs. Obama will promote girls' education on the trip. She will spend March 18-19 in Tokyo and March 20 in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto before flying to Cambodia for a two-day visit.